I am trying to archive a file in a directory and use the filename of the file in the zip file name without knowing the filename.
I have this command:
zip -FSmT (what to put here?).zip I805_test.txt
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Zip encryption has had often a bad reputation of being weak, but some would argue that a zip file encrypted using certain algorithms (such as by using AES), together with strong password, is really ...

This is a followup to I am repeatedly zipping the same folder of files, but the shasum keeps changing essentially..
I am trying to add a file containing the git sha of the current commit when I zip a ...

I'd like to compress one huge file (~200GB) from the command line. no need for archiving its directory along with it, swift operation and high compression ratio preferred. What may be some good ways?
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I recently installed Linux Mint 17 on my laptop. I had Windows 7 before, and I backed up all of my data onto an external hard drive. Windows 7 crams all of your backup data into a ton of .zip folders. ...

What command can I use to create zips with a file number limit? I have a folder (no subfolders) of, say, 5000 files, so I would want a command that could divide that number and create 10 individual ...

I am zipping a folder and fingerprinting it with its shasum however this keeps changing on every zipping. Same with md5 any idea why? Is it working based on access time or something? Is there a way to ...

I have a question regarding unzip command in Unix. As of now my Unix command unzip -p -a is able to zip the file which are lesser in size. But if the file size is larger then the command is not able ...

I have to zip a few files induvidually from folder A and move them to folder B on the same directory which takes lot of time. So I thought of moving all those files to be zipped to a new folder(c), ...

In Mac OSX if you have downloaded a zip/gz/bz2 file, and you double click it in Finder, then the archive is automatically extracted for you in a subfolder, which I find very nice. I am wondering if ...

Given a bunch of files in the current directory, I want to be able to zip them such that, when extracted, they'd be placed in some given directories. For example, say I have these in $PWD:
ls
fsck
xz
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The behaviour I'd like with unzip is to extract all files, overwriting any that are older than those in the archive, not touching any that are the same age or newer, and to never prompt.
The options ...

I have an auto-generated zipfile foo.zip on a Red Hat server that needs to be extracted to a particular location /bar. This is done through an install script using ksh. When the script executes unzip ...